JD(U) leader Narendra Yadav appointed Pro-tem speaker of Bihar Assembly

Janata Dal (United) leader Narendra Narayan Yadav, who won an eighth consecutive term in the 2025 Assembly polls, took the oath as the Pro-tem Speaker of the Bihar Assembly on Monday (November 24, 2025). Governor Arif Mohammad Khan administered the oath to Mr. Yadav at Raj Bhawan in Patna.

Narendra Narayan Yadav, 74, has been winning Assembly elections from Alamnagar constituency of Madhepura district since 1995 and is amongst the senior most JD(U) leaders in the State. Mr. Yadav defeated Vikashil Insaan Party (VIP) candidate Nabin Kumar by over fifty five thousand votes in the Assembly polls.

Mr. Yadav will now administer the oath to newly elected legislators in the Assembly and conduct the election for the new Assembly Speaker.

The buzz in political circles is that senior BJP leader, Prem Kumar, who won from Gaya town for the ninth time, may be elected as new Speaker. The new session of the State Assembly is likely to be convened from December 1 for four to five days. Mr. Kumar was a minister in Nitish Kumar’s previous government but was dropped from the cabinet on this occasion amid hints that the BJP might nominate him for the Speaker’s post.

In the recently concluded Assembly elections, the BJP won 89 seats out of 243 and became the single largest party in the state.